BLM nominee has a history of supporting sell-off

In November, President Trump tapped former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Over the course of his tenure in Congress, Pearce cosponsored legislation to privatize public lands. In a 2012 letter to Congress, Pearce advocated for selling off BLM lands — the very lands he’ll be responsible for stewarding — to bring down the federal deficit.